At the 12th annual Legal, Regulatory, and Compliance Forum on Dietary Supplements, FDA and FTC officials, and lawyers discussed a grab bag of hot topics.
A new House bill would amend the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to grant FDA more authority against products that don't meet the definition of dietary supplement.
Synthesized cannabinoids should only be sold in adult-use products through legal channels, and shouldn’t be labeled as “hemp,” the association recommends.
The coalition of CBD stakeholders plans to advocate for CBD to be regulated as a dietary ingredient with a set of unique testing and labeling standards.
Due to “competing priorities,” the agency provided no clarification on how it interprets the provision of DSHEA which defines drugs versus dietary ingredients.
The study conducted by MDbio in partnership with Radicle Science found improvements in measure of sleep, stress, and anxiety in a population of 620 adults.
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President and CEO of the Council of Responsible Nutrition discussed the industry’s need to strengthen communications, self-regulation, and transparency.
The study on CBD, and combinations containing CBD and other rare cannabinoids was history’s largest IRB-approved clinical trial on cannabis extracts to date.
Proposed legislation aims to create a new agency that would assume responsibilities for the regulation of food and dietary supplements currently held by FDA.
By Michael McGuffin, President, American Herbal Products Association (AHPA)09.13.22
Over 1,600 people with pain were randomized to take one of six cannabinoid formulations containing CBD and some combination of rare cannabinoids from OBX.
Amnesty for late NDI notifications is intended to encourage manufacturers and distributors to correct past failures while collecting safety data, FDA said.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) introduced a bill that would require dietary supplement manufacturers to file product information with FDA.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is prioritizing multiple ways to regulate the dietary supplements industry in its request for an $8.4 billion budget.
CEO Megan Blackwell has distilled the best nature can offer, to deliver a line of products that appeal to everyone from elite athletes to business executives.
Adding CBD, a naturally anti-inflammatory ingredient, to the base 0.2% retinol solution, maintains the anti-aging properties, but with reduced side effects.
By Julius Few, MD; Michael Lee, MD; Alec Semersky; Emily Mariscal, LE; and Ginny Vachon, PhD04.07.22
Defining standard terminology is important to the hemp and CBD industries for regulations, consumer understanding, and product manufacturing and marketing.
Company specializes in analytical chemistry and microbiology testing for pharma, nutraceutical, dietary supplement, cosmetic, and cannabis/CBD industries.
Focus centered around the GRAS and NDI processes, the prospects of a mandatory product listing, how health claims will be handled in the future, and more.
The bipartisan legislation, the Hemp Access and Consumer Safety Act of 2021, was introduced by Senators Ron Wyden, Jeff Merkley (both D-OR) and Rand Paul (R-KY)
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According to Natural Products Association and Council for Responsible Nutrition, FDA needs to step into the CBD market ASAP with its supplement rulebook.
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As chief technology officer and founder, he is the technical visionary of Mile High Labs and is designing/building and operating the future of hemp extraction.
Thanks to the efforts of flavor and color companies, healthy products are officially upstaging sugar-laden, artificially flavored/colored counterparts.